[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough].
- Kensington (London, England). Royal Borough.
- Date:
- [1936]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![8 Table showing the number of deaths in 1935 from certain diseases of public health importance, arranged in four-weekly periods. Four weeks ending Scarlet fever. Whooping cough. Diphtheria. Influenza. Phthisis. Cancer. Bronchitis. Pneumonia. Diarrhoea and enteritis. January 26 — — 3 3 4 24 9 10 5 February 23 — — — 5 5 27 5 10 8 March 23 — — 3 6 3 24 4 24 6 April 20 — — 1 3 8 21 3 14 7 May 18 — — 1 — 6 18 7 7 3 June 16 — — 2 2 4 23 — 10 4 July 13 — — 1 ] 7 26 1 4 4 August 10 — 1 — — 5 22 2 1 3 September 7 — 1 3 — 10 27 1 5 6 October 5 — — 1 1 5 23 1 9 3 November 2 — — — 2 8 25 3 10 5 November 30 — 1 3 3 9 27 2 4 3 December 28 1 — 1 5 4 30 10 14 7 Totals 1 3 19 31 78 317 48 122 64 Infant Mortality. During the year 1935, there were 2,226 births and 175 deaths of infants under the age of one year in the borough. These figures give an infant mortality rate (deaths of infants under twelve months of age to each 1,000 births) of 79. This marks a considerable decrease on the figure for the previous year, which was 93, but it is still higher than the figure for London and for England and Wales. The following table gives the births and the infant death rates in England and Wales, London, Kensington and the various wards of the borough for the year 1935, and the infant death rates for the previous four years :— District. 1935 Infant mortality rates in previous four years. No. of births. No. of deaths of children under 1 year of age. Infant mortality rate. 1934 1933 1932 1931 England and Wales 598,756 34,089 57 59 64 65 60 London 55,780 3,229 58 67 59 66 65 The Borough 2,226 175 79 93 72 98 76 North Kensington 1,566 140 89 102 80 116 86 South Kensington 609 35 57 75 59 54 44 Wards. St. Charles 510 44 86 115 53 109 76 Golborne 481 48 100 97 89 112 97 Norland 351 36 102 111 117 142 84 Pembridge 224 .2 54 73 67 120 92 Holland 158 11 88 133 85 83 54 Earl's Court 118 5 42 40 55 22 18 Queen's Gate 69 2 29 51 37 59 59 Redcliffe 203 14 69 69 65 70 67 Brompton 61 — 40 23 32 14 Ward unknown 51 — There is situated within the Holland ward of the borough the National Children's Adoption Association hostel where unwanted children are kept until they are adopted. They are mostly illegitimate and come from poor homes. Three infant deaths occurred in the hostel during the year; not one was a Kensington child; if the deaths were removed from the statistics, the death rate for that ward would be reduced to 69.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B18235827_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
